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The next generation of social networks seems to be focused around decentralization. The protocol they developed (https://atproto.com/ https://atproto.com/) see
by huimang 4y ago
The next generation of social networks seems to be focused around decentralization.
The protocol they developed (https://atproto.com/ https://atproto.com/) seems to differ with ActivityPub at least in "Algorithmic Choice", a "market of open algorithms". The other features are already offered by ActivityPub - which is what Mastodon, Pleroma, GNUSocial use.
I wish they had built on top of ActivityPub instead of making their own federated protocol, but they may have some particular reasons as to why.
- Spivak 4y agoThey’ve got some good ideas in their protocol design but god damn it reads like urbit lite. Why did you need to invent xrpc/lexicon? (which is not xml-rpc by the way) but a purposely leaky a schemafull RPC abstraction over HTTP with introspection. Coulda honestly just used an real xmlrpc server at that point. They borrowed every concept except made it JSON. If nothing else it would have given you pre-built libraries for every language ecosystem.
- smt88 4y agoDecentralized social networking has been around for decades and never caught on because the pain of setup isn't worth it for most users.